Dimensions: 50.0 x 70.0 cm, 19.685 x 27.559 inches

“I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash…”

MIlton Friedman, Nobel-Prize Winning Economist, 1999

Bitcoin was imagined and conceived in radical and deeply ideological opposition to State power. Early advocates of Bitcoin considered themselves crypto-anarchists, a term first coined by engineer-turned-author Tim May in his 1988 ‘The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto.’ The manifesto refers to the personal freedoms that could arise from the widespread adoption of encryption technologies. May saw the potential for increased privacy and individual freedom in the use of encryption, and believed it could be used as a means of liberation against government control.